A Reader's Guide to John MiltonMarjorie Nicolson—one of the foremost authorities on Milton—examines Milton's work, beginning with the famous Minor Poems, "L'Allegro," "II Penseroso," "Comus" (and "Arcades"), and "Lycides." She explores Milton's middle years, when he was diverted from poetry to become Latin Secretary under Oliver Cromwell. Finally, she looks at the great poems, including a book-by-book analysis of Paradise Lost and a careful reading of Milton's poetic "closet drama," Samson Agonistes. |
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... kind occasionally led him into trouble . In his lines on Shakespeare , he said : Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star - ypointing pyramid , which is an impossible construction , never known in English . Other ...
... kind occasionally led him into trouble . In his lines on Shakespeare , he said : Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star - ypointing pyramid , which is an impossible construction , never known in English . Other ...
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... kind of proportion to the lowest bottome at Sea . . . that God might observe some kind of proportion . " Here is the persistent idea that the Great Geometer laid out the World with line and measure , with proportion , symmetry ...
... kind of proportion to the lowest bottome at Sea . . . that God might observe some kind of proportion . " Here is the persistent idea that the Great Geometer laid out the World with line and measure , with proportion , symmetry ...
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... kind of hypocrisy which the innocent Eve , with her limited experience , could not possibly have detected . Inter- ested and curious , Eve is quite willing to allow the serpent to lead her to the tree , the fruit of which has caused ...
... kind of hypocrisy which the innocent Eve , with her limited experience , could not possibly have detected . Inter- ested and curious , Eve is quite willing to allow the serpent to lead her to the tree , the fruit of which has caused ...
Contents
The Education of a Poet | 3 |
Juvenilia | 22 |
The Minor Poems | 50 |
Copyright | |
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Adam and Eve Adam's Aeneid appear Areopagitica basic begins Belial Biblical blind Book XI called Cambridge character Chorus Christ Christian classical climax Comus Council Scene Creation critics Dalilah dark death deity deliberately Diodati drama earth elegy English epic Eve's eyes fallen angels familiar father feel Genesis Greek hear Heaven Hell Il Penseroso implied Italian John Milton King L'Allegro Lady later Latin Lawes learned light lines living Ludlow Castle Lycidas Mammon masque memory Milton wrote mind modern Moloch mood Muse Nativity Ode Nature pagan Pandemonium Paradise Lost Paradise Regained paraphrase particularly passage Penseroso phrase Pindar poem poet poetry Prologue Psalms Puritan Raphael Reason Renaissance rhyme rises Samson Agonistes Satan says seems sestet shepherd sing song sonnet sound speech Spenser Spirit stanza suggested temptation thee theme thou Tillyard tion tradition University verse word write written young youth